>(((Roger H. Hurwitz))) death: April 18, 2015

http://archive.is/fyzGc

>Social science is being militarised to develop 'operational tools' to target peaceful activists and protest movements

http://archive.is/tWOf3

>Gleaning Wisdom from the Past: Early Detection of Emerging Rumors in Social Media/*MINERVA Initiative*

>The Fragility of Twitter Social Networks Against Suspended Users/*MINERVA Initiative*

"Since an account can be suspended in Twitter for various reasons including spamming or spreading ideas that can lead to extremism or terrorism, we separately assess the impacts of removing apparent spam bots and apparent extremists. Experimental results demonstrate that Twitter based network structures and content are unstable, and can be highly impacted by the removal of suspended users. Further, the results exhibit regional and temporal characteristics that can be triggered by important social events. We also provides guidance on the differential impact of different types of potentially suspend-able users."

>((([email protected])))

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>(((Kathleen Carley))))

>(((Michael W. Macy)))

http://archive.is/Lw9iL

>Principal Investigator: (((Kathleen Carley)))
>Lead institution: Carnegie Mellon University
>With collaborators from: Dartmouth College
>Government Program Manager: Harold Hawkins, ONR

>"This basic research proposal aims to develop new dynamic statistical network techniques that support the identification of structural features in communities or nation-states that can be leveraged to increase the resiliency, alter the distribution of power, support deterrence activities or stabilize or destabilize communities. At its core, developing this socio-cultural understanding (the socio-cognitive cultural map (SCM)) means collecting, reasoning about, visualizing and forecasting change in networks. However, these networks are not the traditional social networks but rather high-dimensional dynamic inferred networks relating actors at different levels of granularity (individuals and groups) to other actors and their activities, beliefs, and topics of concern, posing severe problems for the analyst.
The methods will be designed and assessed through the construction and assessment of SCMs for diverse contexts (resiliency, deterrence and cyber) and regions of interest (Syria/Iraq, Pacific Rim, and Global) using diverse data sources (questionnaire, news, subject matter expert assessments, and sensor data).
The algorithm, procedures and associated tools developed in this project for identifying and visualizing SCMs, assessing resiliency and the impact of structural changes on resiliency will provide the DoD with a core operational capability to enhance predictive modeling, and support mission planning."

http://archive.is/fG552

>Investigating the Observability of Complex Contagion in Empirical Social Networks

>((({cjc73, m.macy}@cornell.edu)))

>Adam Sharp - Twitter
>"As Manager, Government and Politics, for Twitter, Adam Sharp works with government officials, agencies and candidates to make better use of Twitter’s real time information network for civic engagement.  Called "the human embodiment of Twitter" by the New York Times, Sharp was named one of Washingtonian magazine's "People to Watch" in its 2011 "Tech Titans" listing.  He previously led digital efforts at C-SPAN and NBC News and served as Deputy Chief of Staff to Senator Mary Landrieu (D-La.), working with her through Hurricane Katrina and her 2008 reelection campaign."

http://archive.is/9NLZ5

>MINERVA Initiative, 2008
>Obama, 2008
>2008
>MINERVA Initiative/Obama

>Russia, China, Tajikistan propose UN “code of conduct” for the ‘Net
>China, Tajikistan, Russia, and Uzbekistan want to make sure that states are in …

http://archive.is/m3YxO

http://archive.is/1Kna7

>(((Nazli Choucri)))
>MINERVA Researcher

>Professional Associations:
>* (((Council on Foreign Relations))) (George Soros)

>Roger Hurwitz PhD
>a founder of Explorations in Cyber International Relations (ECIR)
>Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

http://archive.is/KGfLl

>"We are terribly shocked"

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>(((Joshua Neustein))) and I were close friends of (((Roger)))'s

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>"In March 2014, the US Department of Commerce contributed to this distancing by announcing it did not intend to renew its contract with ICANN in 2015, but to transfer it to some authority constituted by the multi-stakeholder community."

http://archive.is/NY9Cr

>"Depleted Trust in the Cyber Commons"

>(((Roger Hurwitz))), PhD
>"a founder of Explorations in Cyber International Relations (ECIR)"

>"But the ICANN is no norms entrepreneur and lacks the political skills and leverage to reconcile competing interests among states over cyber behaviors and security. Additionally, it is seen by many states as a tool of US policy."

>"India, Brazil, and South America— leading voices on cyber issues among “nonaligned” countries—want these changes to be acknowledged as conceded major parts in any negotiations. They consequently favor transfer of authority away from technologi­ cally oriented agencies, reflecting the multistakeholder model, including ICANN and IETF, to a more policy-oriented agency, possibly under the UN, though not necessarily the ITU, that gives every state an equal voice."

http://archive.is/BGdRr

>"Neoliberal theorists observe that a state will accept international norms, although doing so involves surrendering some sovereignty, to increase the pre- dictability of the international system—an idea on which U.S. international strategy for cyberspace, as already quoted, relies."

http://archive.is/j5sth

"Russia and China, per their code of Conduct tabled at the Un in September 2011, would seem to include in "use of force" the distribution by digital networks from state A to state B of information that state B'd government considers destabilziing of its internal affairs. Western liberal democracies reject this approach, considering it a demand that a host country stifle exiles' political speech if their home country's government so requests."

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http://archive.is/r7spT

>"President Obama embraced the legislation immediately, proclaiming “it would level the playing field, give our workers a fair shot, and for the first time, include strong fully enforceable protections for workers’ rights, the environment and a free and open Internet.""

http://archive.is/1m5SY

http://archive.is/f6Xbs

http://archive.is/6ovxL

>"Axelrod: Clinton comments on trade 'weren't helpful'"

http://archive.is/0ChrS

>"The same year Podesta joined Joule, the company agreed to accept 1 billion rubles — or $35 million — from Rusnano, a state-run and financed Russian company with close ties to President Vladimir Putin."

http://archive.is/t8YMQ

http://archive.is/P3Prv

http://archive.is/FgdkV

>"Roger Hurwitz, a close friend and neighbor, said at a gathering at Dr. Stone's ..."

http://archive.is/AXMAe

>"Roger Hurwitz"
>“Everyone who does social network analysis has looked at him.”

http://archive.is/Jrov3

>DoD Minerva‏
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"What Trump’s travel ban ignores: Radicalized U.S. citizens pose the greatest threat by Michael Morell & Robert Pape"

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>"• Interagency coordination with sociocultural research programs at NSF, DHS, DOJ, IARPA, DARPA, and the UK Research Councils."

http://archive.is/r9Sa2

>"NSF Grant CCF-1018625"
>"NSF Grant IIS-1320538"

http://archive.is/4i3vf

>"On December 14, 2012, twenty school children and six fac- ulty members were shot at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. It was the deadliest primary school shooting in US history. Most victims were six years old. This tragic event affected the entire United States. It re- ceived extensive media coverage and was widely discussed on social media."

http://archive.is/hREEg

>(((Clayton R. Fink)))

>Open Society Institute (George Soros)

http://archive.is/Fk64E

http://archive.is/y3HQV

http://archive.is/hbYRv

>Membership Roster:
>(((Soros, George)))
>(((Soros, Jonathan)))

http://archive.is/7w390

>"Explorations in Cyber International Relations (ECIR)"

http://archive.is/bfqzy

>"People, Power, and CyberPolitics"

http://archive.is/xBSJQ

>(((Ethan Zuckerman)))
>Open Society Foundation ( (((George Soros))) )

http://archive.is/OJjSa

>"The work by Ethan Zuckerman and the role of “bridge bloggers” is not only bridging between cultures and languages, but between different coalitions and spaces in cyberspace."

http://archive.is/xBSJQ

>[email protected]

>". ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This work was partially funded by Grant TIN2009-14560- C03-01 of the Ministry of Science and Innovation of Spain. This work was carried out as part of Janette Lehmann in- ternship at QCRI. The authors would like to thank Noora Al Emadi, Diego Sáez Trumper and Hemant Purohit for the labelling tasks and Mohammed El-Haddad and Nasir Khan from ***Al Jazeera**** for insightful discussions and comments."

http://archive.is/VfMre

>(((Ethan Zuckerman)))
>***Al Jazeera***

http://archive.is/VfMre

>"Moments of crisis, like the shooting in Newtown, tend to produce brief spikes of popular interest in gun control. My research on media attention suggests these spikes are extremely short-lived, and that they may be decreasing in intensity. There was less popular interest in gun control, as measured by Google searches, after the Gabrielle Giffords shooting and the Aurora killings than after Virginia Tech."

http://archive.is/GNU6o

>"Clinton's Speech on Internet Freedom, January 2010"

http://archive.is/dSAhR

>"weaponization of information."

http://archive.is/IwykX